Temperature does change moisture meter results. Increase the moisture meter reading by approximately 1% for every 20 deg below 70 deg F (if the...
When young, my wife was always thought to be my sister while no one thought my two sisters and I were related. The three of us are as different...
From the book "Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way" by Lars Mytting, page 46 of the English edition in the...
VGO 32 deg F "winter work gloves" which I found on Amazon. Lightly insulated so my hands do not get hot. I wear them driving, cutting with the...
Ironwood/hop-hornbeam. We get a few large trees here in NE Iowa. National champion is 3' DBH in Michigan. Ironwood is one of my favorite woods:...
This link gives the equation relationship for temperature and humidity and firewood drying time about two thirds the way down: Wood drying -...
You have picked a topic which can receive very different answers based on each persons experience. I do consider the issue of moisture content...
My opinion, the key to reducing drying time all-else-being-equal would be air/heat flow into the "basket" center and so moisture out. The next...
I take everything including crotches+cookies and leave only saw dust (especially if I need kindling). My wife sends me to the woods with...
We both prefer heating with wood instead of propane because the wood furnace continuously and slowly drafts heat into all the rooms via the ducts....
My six rows are a mix of wood (hornbeam, red oak, slippery elm, sugar maple, rock elm, black ash, bitternut hickory, hackberry, white ash and a...
Urban Woods, I started splitting some of that slippery elm and I needed two wedges. Sure makes white ash look good. Off for my last load of the...
I used all four battery pairs I own. I purchased another two pairs in addition to my original two pair. Each pair is rated at 36 volts together...
I hauled four loads of hackberry firewood home and two loads are in this picture waiting for c/s/s. Each row was around 800 pounds and the four...
Our Astro with a full load of dutch elm kill slippery elm, seasoned standing, bark free. A full 1000 pound load. The hand truck was used to haul...
The traditional Christmas yule fireplace log was ash. Total heresy considering c/s/s practices. 100 or more years ago, ash would be the...
Ash is easy to identify by looking at the twig sprouting pattern. Ash has opposite or symmetrical twig buds/sprouting. Each twig has an opposite...
Dutch elm disease killed slippery/red elm, seasoned standing, bark free, below 16% moisture after storing inside for one year as a round. Burns...
I plan to cut the hackberry this weekend. Sounds heretical but oaks extra 10-15% dry weight/heat does not seem worth the long.... drying time....
That's me. My brother-in-law and I each installed a double wide garage door header about the same time. His sagged, mine didn't. I always check...
